A Gray Magic
ShortStory 3,972 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Well, at least we’ll finally be able to get some hours.” “Ruthless.” “I’m serious. Maybe they’ll finally be forced to make one of us full time.” “It’ll never happen. They’ll just hire another part-timer.” The two workers were in the break room. In the pause that followed, their ripstop paper jumpsuits rustled."
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